Supply Chain Management

Supply Chain Management - Service Extensions Simplify Partner Integration

Transportation Management
As your business grows and your supply chain expands, you’re faced with a number of new challenges:

• A high number of business partners (3PLs, carriers, freight forwarders)
• The increased need for collaboration with partners
• The need for a large number of connections
• Different partner IT systems, communication types and B2B standards

Which means you’re going to need to make some important changes. In fact, you’ll need to transform your business network. And that’s precisely where SAP and Crossgate can help. SAP Transportation Management and Crossgate’s B2B360 enable business network transformation.

• SAP and Crossgate offer you these critical advantages:
• SAP Transport Management interfaces configured to the Crossgate Network
• Full support for RosettaNet, XML, TRADACOM, EDIFACT, ODETTE, CEFIC, UIC 912, IATA, CARGO-FACT
• Maintenance of all partner connections through Crossgate
• Fully aligned to SAP SOA strategy—leveraging SAP TM ES bundles:
  
  
  • Ocean Booking & Visibility Bundle
  • Subcontracting & Visibility Bundle
  • Order Capturing Bundle
  • Notify of Waybill/Connect to Customs (AMS/ACI Declaration)

Your business will enjoy incredible new benefits, including:

• Support for any partner communication, data standards or ERP systems
• Integration of financial supply chain and physical supply chain
• Future support for business diversification and global extension of your business process
• Rapid connectivity to our network of over 40,000 trading partners
• Major LSPs/carriers/customers already connected
• Accelerated implementation
  
  

Supply Network Collaboration
Supply Network Collaboration is one of the core SAP solutions for managing Adaptive Supply Chain Networks, a fundamental principle for the networked and outsourced enterprise of today and tomorrow. Through SNC, customers and suppliers can simultaneously eliminate inefficiencies in their supply chains by synchronizing the flow of information between them. SNC offers a 360 degree view of supply chain collaboration, offering a company ways to effectively collaborate with its customers, suppliers, third-party logistics providers and outsourced manufacturing partners.

Crossgate SNC Service Extension includes:

• Supplement technical deployment offering with vital services and tools for business partner on-boarding, training and support
• Standard mapping based on the new web services of SAP enterprise service architecture will allow standard re-usable integration to all SAP processes
• Industry partner packages for Retail, CPG, Automotive, High-Tech, Oil & Gas, Chemicals and more
• Integration as a Service – fixed cost partner enablement and ongoing management
• Leverage Crossgate’s existing E-Invoicing solution (including archiving) to allow digital signature in SNC Invoice Collaboration.